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History. The album reunited Lynne with Electric Light Orchestra 's keyboard player Richard Tandy and featured fellow Traveling Wilburys member George Harrison (both Harrison and the Wilburys were signed to Warner Bros. Records, parent of Reprise Records which released this album).
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El álbum reunió nuevamente a Lynne con el teclista del grupo Electric Light Orchestra, Richard Tandy y a su compañero de grupo en Traveling Wilburys, George Harrison. A pesar de las críticas positivas, el disco se convirtió en un éxito menor en comparación con su trabajo con la Electric Light Orchestra.
15 de jun. de 1990 · Armchair Theatre. By Greg Sandow. Published on June 15, 1990 04:00AM EDT. Quick, who were the five members of that adorable, top-selling 1988 supergroup the Traveling Wilburys? Bob Dylan,...
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Armchair Theatre filled a Sunday-evening slot on ITV, Britain's only commercial network at the time, in which contemporary dramas were the most common form, though this was not immediately apparent. The series was launched by Howard Thomas, head of ABC at the time,who argued that "Television drama is not so far removed from television journalism, and the plays which will grip the audience are those that face up to the new issues of the day as well as to the problems as old as civilisation." T...
Writers and production staff
A script editor, Peter Luke, was the first to become aware of the writers Clive Exton, who contributed eight plays to the series, Alun Owen, who wrote No Trams to Lime Street (18 October 1959),) and Harold Pinter, who contributed A Night Out (24 April 1960).) Owen's play was the first of a trilogy transmitted during 1959 and 1960, which was completed by After the Funeral (3 April 1960) and Lena, O My Lena(26 September 1960). Ratings for the series were regularly about 15 million with the seri...
Spin-offs and influence
The programme occasionally spun off ideas into full-blown series such as Armchair Mystery Theatre, hosted by Donald Pleasence, which specialised in crime and mystery thrillers. A 1962 adaptation of John Wyndham's short story Dumb Martian, scripted by Clive Exton, was a deliberate showcase for the spin-off science fiction anthology Out of This World. Two 1967 episodes became series. One of these was developed into the sitcom Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, while the other, A Magnum for...
A DVD boxset featuring eight colour episodes from 1970 to 1973 was released by Network DVD in January 2010. It contains the following episodes: 1. Say Goodnight to Your Grandma 2. Office Party 3. Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee 4. Detective Waiting 5. Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'? 6. The Folk Singer 7. A...
17 de jul. de 2020 · Lynne’s fellow Traveling Wilbury George Harrison lends slide guitar and backing vocals to roughly half the tracks, and Del Shannon, a onetime potential Wilbury, adds cooing background vocals to the Beatle-esque “Blown Away,” a cowrite with yet another member of that all-star ensemble, Tom Petty.
En 1990, Lynne colaboró en el segundo álbum de los Traveling Wilburys, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 y publicó su primer trabajo en solitario, Armchair Theatre, en el que colaboraron George Harrison y Richard Tandy. El álbum obtuvo buenas reseñas de la crítica musical pero escaso éxito comercial.
12 de jun. de 1990 · About. “Every Little Thing” was the first single from Jeff Lynne’s 1990 album “Armchair Theatre”. George Harrison plays acoustic guitar and provides background vocals. He also makes a ...
